DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 35-85]
48 FR 43364
September 23, 1983
Application for Expansion; Foreign-Trade Zone 12, McAllen, Texas
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by McAllen Trade Zone, Inc. (McAllen) grantee of Foreign-Trade
Zone 12, requesting authority to expand its zone project in McAllen, Texas,
adjacent to the Hidalgo Customs port of entry. The application was
submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part
400). It was formally filed on September 14, 1983. The applicant is
authorized to make this proposal under Article 1446.2 of Vernon's
Annotated Civil Statutes of Texas,
On October 23, 1970, McAllen was authorized by the Board to establish a
foreign-trade zone (Board Order 84, 35 FR 16962, 11/3/70). The project
covers 40 acres in the McAllen Southwest Industrial Area, an industrial
park located at W. Military Highway and S. 33rd Street in McAllen. In 1982,
the zone served 105 business firms and received $446 million in
merchandise. There has been a 400 percent increase in merchandise received
during the past five years. Because all of the park's buildings are now
fully occupied and the remaining vacant parcels are too small to
accommodate larger prospective industrial users, the grantee has requested
an expansion of its zone area.
The expanded are a would cover 40 acres immediately to the south of the
existing approved zone area. A 50,000 square foot multi-user building will
be constructed and tracts will be available for tenants requiring their own
facilities.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, an examiners committee has
been appointed to investigate the application and report to the Board, The
committee consists of: Dennis Puccinelli (Chairman), Foreign-Trade Zones
Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230; Donald Gough,
Deputy Assistant Regional Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Southwest
Region, Suite 500, 5850 San Felipe Street, Houston, TX 77057; and Colonel
Alan L. Laubscher, District Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District Galveston,
P.O. Box 1229, Galveston, TX 77553.
Comments concerning the proposed zone expansion are invited in writing
from interested persons and organizations. They should be addressed to the
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below and postmarked on or
before October 21, 1983.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
Port Director's Office,
U.S. Customs Service,
Administration Building,
Bridge Street,
P.O. Box Q,
Hidalgo, TX 78557
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1872,
14th and Pennsylvania NW.,
Washington, D.C. 20230
Dated: September 19, 1983.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 83-26017 Filed 9-22-83; 8:45 am]
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